Project Title Stickleback Genome Project and Summer Training Course
Position Held: see http://cegs.stanford.edu/
Partnering Organization(s): NIH Human Genome Research Institute
Populations Served: Worldwide research community in vertebrate genetics
Location: International
Specific Location: Stanford
This an ongoing project: Yes
There are opportunities for student involvement in work: No
Description: We have launched a major initiative to bring molecular genetics to a classic system in vertebrate biology, the threespine stickleback fish (Gasterosteus aculeatus). New genetic maps, markers, clone libraries, physical maps, sequences, and transgenic methods developed by the Stanford Center of Excellence in Genomic Science (CEGS) are being made available to the large and diverse international stickleback research community. These molecular tools will make it possible to map and isolate the genes controlling many different morphological, physiological, and behavioral traits in natural populations.
An intensive two week practical laboratory course is offered each summer at Stanford for hands on training in biology, collection, breeding, aquaculture, embryology, genomics, and bioinformatic methods that can now be applied to important biomedical and ecological issues in threespine sticklebacks. Graduate students, postdocs or principal investigators interested in participating in next summer's version of the Stickleback Molecular Genetics course should send a letter of interest to Dr. Kingsley describing your research background, CV, and a brief statement of how you think the course would facilitate your own research goals. See http://cegs.stanford.edu/ for more information about the project, a variety of genome resources that are already publicly available, and further details about the summer laboratory course.
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